1. clap -- (put quickly or forcibly; "The judge clapped him in jail")
2. clap -- (cause to strike the air in flight; "The big bird clapped its wings")
3. applaud, clap, spat, acclaim -- (clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval)
4. clap, spat -- (clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the music")
5. clap -- (strike the air in flight; "the wings of the birds clapped loudly")
6. clap -- (strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting)
7. clap -- (strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise; "clap two boards together")

Clap the skull on top of the ribs, and clap a crown on top of the skull. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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He had just found his clap of thunder. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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Clap clap hands till Poldy comes home. - from Ulysses by James Joyce

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To clap this royal bargain up of peace. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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He smoked his pipe as we went along, and sometimes stopped to clap me on the shoulder. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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And shining soars, and claps her wings above. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer

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Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep-mouth'd sea. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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So begob the citizen claps his paw on his knee and he say. - from Ulysses by James Joyce

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Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to the very ceiling. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table and say. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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I knows a lady what's got a white swelling quick as I claps eyes on her. - from Ulysses by James Joyce

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_She claps her hands_ Dance Dance _She runs to the pianola_ Who has twopenc. - from Ulysses by James Joyce

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A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole the carpenter claps it into one of his ever-ready vices, and straightway files it smaller. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

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NORA, who has been absorbed in her thoughts, breaks out into smothered laughter and claps her hands. - from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen